Pile fabric



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United States Patent C) PILE FABRIC Chojiro Fujii, Izumi-Otsu 'City, Japan Application July 13, 1956, Serial No. 597,704

Claims priority, application Japan December 8, 1955 3 Claims. (Cl. 139-402) The present invention relates to a pile fabric with a pile texture on one side and a satin weave on the other side.

The pile fabric according to the present invention is produced by weaving a plurality of sets of four warp threads and a plurality of pile warp threads with a plurality of sets of six weft threads in such a way that one warp thread in each set passes over the first two weft threads and under the third, fourth, fifth and sixth weft threads, the second warp thread in each set passes over the third weft and under the fourth, fifth, sixth weft threads and under the first and second weft threads of the next set, the third warp thread in each set passes over the fourth and fifth warp threads and under the sixth warp thread, and under the first, second, third and fourth warp threads in the next set, and the fourth warp thread passes over the sixth weft thread and under the first, second, third, fourth and fifth weft threads in the next set. The pile warp thread is interwoven at selected intervals with the six wefts to produce a pile on either side of the fabric.

It is an object of this invention to produce a fabric that can have a pile texture on one side and a satin weave on the opposite side or can have a portion on one side with a pile texture and the remainder a satin weave with the same being true of the other side. The advantage of the type of weaving described is that patterns of intermittent pile texture and satin weave can be produced on either side of the fabric.

The invention will be explained further with reference to the accompanying drawing in which:

Fig. 1 is a plan view of the fabric according to the invention; and

Fig. 2 is a side elevation in cross section of the fabric according to the invention.

As seen in the figures, there are sets of warp threads each having four warp threads 1, 2, 3, 4. There are sets of six weft threads at, b, c, d, e, f. The first warp thread 1 in each set passes over the first two weft threads a and b and under the next four weft threads 0, d, e and j. The second warp thread 2 passes under the first and second weft threads a and b, over the third weft thread and then under the fourth, fifth and sixth weft threads (I, e, j, and under weft threads a and b of the next set. The third warp thread 3 passes under the first, second and third weft threads a, b, and 0, over fourth and fifth 2,887,131 Patented May 19, 1959 ICC weft threads d and e and under the sixth weft thread 1, and then under weft threads a, b, and c of the next set, and the fourth weft thread 4 passes under the first to the fifth weft threads at, b, c, d and e, over the sixth weft thread f, and under the weft threads a, b, c, d and e of the next set. The pile warp thread 5 is shown as woven over weft threads 7 and a, under weft thread b, over weft threads c and d and under weft thread e. It is of course possible to vary this sequence. More particularly it is important that, as seen in Fig. 2, it is possible to have the pile loops on the pile warp threads 5 project from either side of the fabric, thus making it possible to produce a pattern of intermittent portions of pile areas and satin weave areas.

It is thought that the invention and its advantages will be understood from the foregoing description and it is apparent that various changes may be made in the form construction and arrangement of the parts without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention or sacrificing its material advantages, the form hereinbefore described and illustrated in the drawings being merely a preferred embodiment thereof.

I claim:

1. A woven fabric comprising a plurality of sets of four warp threads and a plurality of sets of six Weft threads, the first warp thread in each set passing over the first and second weft threads and under the third, fourth, fifth and sixth weft threads, the second warp thread passing under the first and second weft threads, over the third weft thread and under the fourth, fifth and sixth weft thread, the third warp thread passing under the first, second, and third weft threads and over the fourth and fifth weft threads and under the sixth weft thread, the fourth warp thread passing under the first, second, third, fourth and fifth weft thread and over the sixth weft thread, and a plurality of pile warp threads passed under a portion of some of the weft threads and over the remainder of the weft threads in a regular pattern with at least a portion of the loops of the pile warp threads projecting from one side of the fabric.

2. A woven fabric as claimed in claim 1 in which all of the loops of the pile Warp threads project from one side of the fabric, whereby a fabric is produced with a pile texture on one side and a satin weave on the other side.

3. A woven fabric as claimed in claim 1 in which a portion of the loops of the pile warp threads project from one side of the fabric and the remainder of the loops of the pile warp threads project from the other side of the fabric, whereby a fabric having a pattern with intermittent pile and satin weave portions on the same side is produced.

References Cited in the file of this patent UNITED STATES PATENTS 483,977 Coley Oct. 4, 1892 2,015,810 Morgan Oct. 1, 1935 2,777,475 Austin Jan. 15, 1957 2,792,851 Moeckel May 21, 1957 

